Nollywood actor, Junior Pope Odonwodo, has opened up about a time when a financial emergency prompted him to use his wife’s jewelry as collateral.

He told the story while trying to explain why he would never do anything to physically or psychologically hurt his wife, Jennifer Awele.

The actor claimed that he used her gold jewelry as collateral to get a loan from a lender and this event gave him good reason to praise God for providing him with a patient wife.

Junior Pope said;

“Back then it seemed like it wasn’t working, it was not easy at all. I have not mentioned it before but to the glory of God, today let me share this. After I got married, the first year was not rosy; I collected my wife’s gold jewelry and used it to borrow money from Aboki. So, I give Him the glory for giving me a patient wife. Why would I want to touch a woman like this? God forbid. One thing I told myself and God is that the day I lay my hands on my wife, let me run mad. Instead, I walk away.”

The father-of-three also spoke about how they maintained a strong union by never hiding anything from each other.

He added;

“I will give glory to God because, like one of my senior colleagues and directors, Emmanuel Lancelot would say, “if your wife dey behave well na God do am for you, no use am brag or compare another person own.” So, it’s been God, and it also partly has to do with my upbringing. The secret is that I carry my wife along, I share everything, and we do not have anything private.
We touch each other’s phones; you know when a man says my wife doesn’t touch my phone and I don’t touch hers, there is no more transparency in the marriage. There should be trust in marriage; as Chinua Achebe said, “As long as the bed keeps shaking the marriage will last forever.” I told my wife that the only thing that can make me opt out is infidelity. Aside from that, every other thing is workable.”